Airbnb Cancels All Washington Area Reservations Week of Joe Biden Inauguration
Short term rental service Airbnb has taken steps in the wake of last week’s rioting at the U.S. Capitol to help prevent a repeat of violence there. The company has banned any bookings for in the Washington More...
How Hard Has Airbnb Been Hit by the Pandemic?
Three days before its highly anticipated stock market debut on Thursday, Airbnb has raised the price range for its initial public offering to $56 to $60 per share, according to an updated filing with More...
Airbnb Bookings More Than Quadrupled Since 2015
Airbnb founders L-R Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk After a long wait, short-term rental market leader Airbnb has finally filed to go public on Monday. In its S1 registration filing, the More...
30 percent of CNBC 50 Disruptor Tech Firms Have Jewish Or Israelis Founders
This year CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list of private companies “whose breakthroughs are influencing business and market competition at an accelerated pace,” 15 (30%) have Jewish or Israelis founders. The More...
Six Highest-Valued Startups in the World, One is Israeli
According to analyst CB Insights, Chinese AI company Bytedance is the highest-valued startup – currently a private, up-and-coming company – in the world. The venture which is valued at US$75 billion is More...
The Most Wanted Homes on Airbnb
A lot of trends have captured the tourism world over the last ten years: adult cruises, Instagram-inspired vacations, ecological and volunteer vacations, and of course – the trend of short-term vacation More...
Airbnb’s Growing Stature
While 2019 turned out to be a rough year for unicorns that went public, 2020 could still see some high-profile IPOs with Airbnb perhaps the most prominent prospect to go public this year. The popular lodging More...
The Highest-Valued Startups in the World
According to analyst CB Insights, Chinese AI company Bytedance is the highest-valued startup – currently private, up-and-coming company – in the world. The venture, which is valued at $75 billion, is More...
Jewish Americans sue Airbnb over West Bank listing ban
A group of 18 Jewish plaintiffs most dual Israeli-Americans sued Airbnb, founded by Jewish, in US federal court in Delaware, over its intention to remove 200 homes in settlements in the disputed West Bank occupied More...
Beverly Hills urges boycott of Airbnb over settlement listings removal
The city council of Beverly Hills in California has voted unanimously last week for a resolution condemning the home rental giant Airbnb’s decision to remove listings of rentals in Israeli settlements in More...